Same thing I thought. Especially being a former firefighter. But the device is real, and it isn't uncommon to have strange measuring devices on Haz-Mat units.
Yep. I know when I was a firefighter we weren't allowed to wear any type of uniform apparel off-duty (except maybe on your way home) and most certainly not in any type of alcohol serving establishment.
In fact, they just fired someone for being on a web site in uniform. Of course they were only wearing half of it...
Yes, my company does a lot of Blackberry development, and we also do Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) hosting, and it supports Groupwise and Lotus.
And yes, it happily supports POP3 access too. But dang, that BES is nice. Complete control over the phones, remote administration, just really, really nice.
I also noticed with the enahancements that I have like 50 invites. So, for $DIETY's sake, if you want a GMail account, shoot me an email at my username at gmail dot com. I'll send them out this evening.
Yep, have to agree with the Gerber. I carried one for 6 years with the Fire Department. The biggest advantage is that you can open it with one hand by just snapping it out. Very durable whether cutting a rope or a car battery cable.
If you want to REQUIRE that credit be granted for your images, then find a site that ISN'T asking for artists to put their images in the public domain
The problem is that the parent poster brought up two questions. The first, how does a person get credit, is obvious. Don't use a site that is asking you to put your stuff in public domain.
But the parent brings up another great point - how does *anyone* know that the person uploading the images has the right to actually put said images into the public domain?
So say you grab one of those images and use it in something, and then it turns out it was a copyrighted image and you get sued for it because you couldn't track it any further then "some site that said it was in the public domain." Not me, thanks/
I am extremely glad that I was able to try open-source apps on Windows. By trying out Mozilla, and then Thunderbird, and then apps like The Gimpe and OpenOffice, I felt confident enough to make the switch. And once I had my primary files running in the software (like mail in Thunderbird on Windows) making the transition was almost flawless. And because the stuff I was using was already familiar, being productive on Linux helped overcome the learning hiccups.
Yep, sure did! Did a whole bunch of Javascript hacks to it too. I toyed with doing XML calls to the server using Perl and Cold Fusion, but by that point we had it up and running and didn't want to mess with it anymore.
A poster already replied, but Autonomy did indeed buy Virage. My understanding was that the piece we were playing with was the public piece, but they had something else that was for government use only. Probably related to the facial recognition technologies.
I worked on a project a couple of years ago with a product from a company called Virage which did this very thing (in fact, it looks like I'm still on their front page). It basically mapped clip timings to the transcript, and allowed searching through the transcript for a phrase, at which point the user could simply click and start the video from that point.
We used it to archive thousands of hours of public meetings, which became available for search about an hour after the meeting was finished. When I did the training at their facility I know they had contracts with lots of major broadcasters, including MLB.
One interesting thing about their software was the clip plugins which allowed you to automatically create clips based on keywords in the transcript (or the speech-to-text), movements, or even facial recognition.
I could easily see this happening for all kinds of televised programs and, let me tell you, is really frickin cool.
I can vouch for FogBugz. We used it in my last position, and it was a great quick bug tracking system. Lots of integration capabilities, and they let you try it online free for 30 days. If you purchase it they ship you the database so you don't lose any data. A little easier to understand than Bugzilla, but only if you don't mind using ASP.
Gee, how about if we have two levels of support from police and firemen? The paying customers get immediate 911 support, and the regular citizens, well, we'll get to you when we can. You're not important.
Pretty much all volunteer fire departments rely on donations or "fees" the community pays. I've definately heard plenty of stories (even some from my old department) where they would not give the same response to a non-paying residence as they would a paying one. Of course, times have changed significantly, and one would hope that critical responses - whether to a fire or a serious computer vulnerability - would be independent of finances when the responder is bound to deliver it (a fire department, or Microsoft).
However, if some security research group independant of Microsoft wanted to set up a similar thing - pay us and we'll tell you about the vulnerabilities first - then go for it. That is after all what a free market is all about. Thankfully most of the researchers stay away from that.
Even just a warning would stop me, for example, browsing through interesting adverts in Loot.com, "Open In New Tab"-ing on all the interesting ones, then looking at the tabs to see nothing but (untitled) (untitled) (untitled) (untitled) which is damn annoying.
Now this seems doable. I didn't check out the target alert extension, but if it already doesn't, maybe it could be modified to show a little script icon for JS links. Or maybe we could just have the href of an anchor tag point to the page, but do any javascript stuff in the onclick, so that users who middle-clicked would get something.
Someone should really change the code of this feature because it doesn't work with javascript links (you get a blank page when you middle-click on this kind of link)
Unfortunately there is no way to know what to change it to so it can be "fixed." Such a wide variety of actions could occur during onClick that it would be very difficult to parse that out and do the right action.
For example, I have used javascript in an href to do the following:
Open a new window
Open a new window to a specific width and height
Change the location of the current page
Change the source of an image on the page
Interact with a Flash movie
Interact with form elements on screen
And even with the location and window opens, sometimes it is done with the simple
My former workplace, a county government, is in the process of switching everyone over to VoIP. A lot of the employees are in one building and so sit on the gigabit backbone throughout the building. They also employed traffic shapers to make sure that VoIP traffic had priority.
Saying all that, the quality was excellent. It was rare to have any glitches, and at the time we had close to a thousand of the employees on it. I even had a Cisco softphone on my laptop that I used to make calls while connected over VPN from another country that was crystal clear.
I think, if you have the bandwidth and the sysadmins for it, it is a wonderful technology. But I wouldn't use it at home unless I had a dedicated pipe coming in.
Absolutely right. The ABC's - Airway, Breathing, Circulation. See if the airway is blocked, and open it up. See if they are breathing. Only then check to see if they have circulation.
IIRC, one of the main CPR organizations is talking about a recommendation to have non-trained personnel simply do rescue breathing instead of trying to give CPR instructions over the phone.
The interesting thing is that we are used to looking for obvious scars when a patient has a pacemaker or other device implanted. At 6cm, that might reduce scarring as well.
Thawte does this as well - they have a network of people who can verify your identity throughout the country, and if you can be positively identify enough, you can become an identifier. Seems to work pretty well (See their Freemail section).
The reason they're not switching is he same reason they're not patching their PC - it takes time effort and a bit of skill.
I can see why you would think that. Linux has definately made some great inroads over the past few years that have made the usability and configuration of it much better than before.
But, as you metioned, people want a PC that works. I'm willing to do a little (actually a lot) of work to get something working. For example, I recently made the switch from Windows XP to Gentoo on my primary desktop. The transition went very well (I was already using Thunderbird and Firefox and the mail switched like a charm).
But, not everything works as well as it should. I finally got sound working after quite a struggle with ALSA (which, after a reboot, mysteriously started working). I'm still trying to get GLX extensions to work. Emerge is great, except when it fails with some cryptic error message.
The nice thing about Windows was that when I had a problem, I could paste the error message to Google and generally find exactly what I was looking for. With Linux, I find that not working nearly as well.
Also, as another poster already mentioned - rootkits can be more advanced on linux, so a virus could actually cause *more* damage then on Windows. (Well, I guess formatting your drives screws you in an OS-Independent way).
So, I don't think that even people who are willing to do a little bit of work should just blindly install Linux. I think they should research why they want to switch, what it will take to switch, and if what they have will work. Of course, if we could get users to do that - we would have a *lot* more patched Windows installations as well.
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Same thing I thought. Especially being a former firefighter. But the device is real, and it isn't uncommon to have strange measuring devices on Haz-Mat units.
I still think the whole thing isn't quite true.
Yep. I know when I was a firefighter we weren't allowed to wear any type of uniform apparel off-duty (except maybe on your way home) and most certainly not in any type of alcohol serving establishment.
In fact, they just fired someone for being on a web site in uniform. Of course they were only wearing half of it...
Yes, my company does a lot of Blackberry development, and we also do Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) hosting, and it supports Groupwise and Lotus.
And yes, it happily supports POP3 access too. But dang, that BES is nice. Complete control over the phones, remote administration, just really, really nice.
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I also noticed with the enahancements that I have like 50 invites. So, for $DIETY's sake, if you want a GMail account, shoot me an email at my username at gmail dot com. I'll send them out this evening.
Yep, have to agree with the Gerber. I carried one for 6 years with the Fire Department. The biggest advantage is that you can open it with one hand by just snapping it out. Very durable whether cutting a rope or a car battery cable.
The problem is that the parent poster brought up two questions. The first, how does a person get credit, is obvious. Don't use a site that is asking you to put your stuff in public domain.
But the parent brings up another great point - how does *anyone* know that the person uploading the images has the right to actually put said images into the public domain?
So say you grab one of those images and use it in something, and then it turns out it was a copyrighted image and you get sued for it because you couldn't track it any further then "some site that said it was in the public domain." Not me, thanks/
I am extremely glad that I was able to try open-source apps on Windows. By trying out Mozilla, and then Thunderbird, and then apps like The Gimpe and OpenOffice, I felt confident enough to make the switch. And once I had my primary files running in the software (like mail in Thunderbird on Windows) making the transition was almost flawless. And because the stuff I was using was already familiar, being productive on Linux helped overcome the learning hiccups.
Yep, sure did! Did a whole bunch of Javascript hacks to it too. I toyed with doing XML calls to the server using Perl and Cold Fusion, but by that point we had it up and running and didn't want to mess with it anymore.
A poster already replied, but Autonomy did indeed buy Virage. My understanding was that the piece we were playing with was the public piece, but they had something else that was for government use only. Probably related to the facial recognition technologies.
Glad to see a fellow Virager ;)
I worked on a project a couple of years ago with a product from a company called Virage which did this very thing (in fact, it looks like I'm still on their front page). It basically mapped clip timings to the transcript, and allowed searching through the transcript for a phrase, at which point the user could simply click and start the video from that point.
We used it to archive thousands of hours of public meetings, which became available for search about an hour after the meeting was finished. When I did the training at their facility I know they had contracts with lots of major broadcasters, including MLB.
One interesting thing about their software was the clip plugins which allowed you to automatically create clips based on keywords in the transcript (or the speech-to-text), movements, or even facial recognition.
I could easily see this happening for all kinds of televised programs and, let me tell you, is really frickin cool.
Right. Did you actually click on the link? You get this gem:
You may also find useful results for 'The Courts' in Video Games.The . (or the dot). It is a perfect companion to the / (or the slash).
That's because the poster mistyped. He meant useless and harmful
I'll second this. I have dual Hp 1730s running and haven't seen any issues, even using one of them through a KVM switch.
I can vouch for FogBugz. We used it in my last position, and it was a great quick bug tracking system. Lots of integration capabilities, and they let you try it online free for 30 days. If you purchase it they ship you the database so you don't lose any data. A little easier to understand than Bugzilla, but only if you don't mind using ASP.
Pretty much all volunteer fire departments rely on donations or "fees" the community pays. I've definately heard plenty of stories (even some from my old department) where they would not give the same response to a non-paying residence as they would a paying one. Of course, times have changed significantly, and one would hope that critical responses - whether to a fire or a serious computer vulnerability - would be independent of finances when the responder is bound to deliver it (a fire department, or Microsoft).
However, if some security research group independant of Microsoft wanted to set up a similar thing - pay us and we'll tell you about the vulnerabilities first - then go for it. That is after all what a free market is all about. Thankfully most of the researchers stay away from that.
My wife an I were in a Cingular store yesterday at they said they just bought out AT&T. Interesting.
Now this seems doable. I didn't check out the target alert extension, but if it already doesn't, maybe it could be modified to show a little script icon for JS links. Or maybe we could just have the href of an anchor tag point to the page, but do any javascript stuff in the onclick, so that users who middle-clicked would get something.
Unfortunately there is no way to know what to change it to so it can be "fixed." Such a wide variety of actions could occur during onClick that it would be very difficult to parse that out and do the right action.
For example, I have used javascript in an href to do the following:
And even with the location and window opens, sometimes it is done with the simple
and sometimes through a function.Thanks! Just did!
My former workplace, a county government, is in the process of switching everyone over to VoIP. A lot of the employees are in one building and so sit on the gigabit backbone throughout the building. They also employed traffic shapers to make sure that VoIP traffic had priority.
Saying all that, the quality was excellent. It was rare to have any glitches, and at the time we had close to a thousand of the employees on it. I even had a Cisco softphone on my laptop that I used to make calls while connected over VPN from another country that was crystal clear.
I think, if you have the bandwidth and the sysadmins for it, it is a wonderful technology. But I wouldn't use it at home unless I had a dedicated pipe coming in.
Absolutely right. The ABC's - Airway, Breathing, Circulation. See if the airway is blocked, and open it up. See if they are breathing. Only then check to see if they have circulation.
IIRC, one of the main CPR organizations is talking about a recommendation to have non-trained personnel simply do rescue breathing instead of trying to give CPR instructions over the phone.
The interesting thing is that we are used to looking for obvious scars when a patient has a pacemaker or other device implanted. At 6cm, that might reduce scarring as well.
Thawte does this as well - they have a network of people who can verify your identity throughout the country, and if you can be positively identify enough, you can become an identifier. Seems to work pretty well (See their Freemail section).
I can see why you would think that. Linux has definately made some great inroads over the past few years that have made the usability and configuration of it much better than before.
But, as you metioned, people want a PC that works. I'm willing to do a little (actually a lot) of work to get something working. For example, I recently made the switch from Windows XP to Gentoo on my primary desktop. The transition went very well (I was already using Thunderbird and Firefox and the mail switched like a charm).
But, not everything works as well as it should. I finally got sound working after quite a struggle with ALSA (which, after a reboot, mysteriously started working). I'm still trying to get GLX extensions to work. Emerge is great, except when it fails with some cryptic error message.
The nice thing about Windows was that when I had a problem, I could paste the error message to Google and generally find exactly what I was looking for. With Linux, I find that not working nearly as well.
Also, as another poster already mentioned - rootkits can be more advanced on linux, so a virus could actually cause *more* damage then on Windows. (Well, I guess formatting your drives screws you in an OS-Independent way).
So, I don't think that even people who are willing to do a little bit of work should just blindly install Linux. I think they should research why they want to switch, what it will take to switch, and if what they have will work. Of course, if we could get users to do that - we would have a *lot* more patched Windows installations as well.
Actually, I hadn't heard of it ever before before it was described here, in this thread, on slashdot.